SAN FRANCISCO—In what the company is calling a major breakthrough in workplace productivity, OpenAI has introduced Dot, an AI-powered project manager who works around the clock while maintaining the enthusiasm, curiosity, and complete lack of institutional knowledge of someone who started eleven minutes ago.
“Wow, a product launch! That's exciting! Do we have a timeline?” said Dot, responding to a request for an update on the product launch it had been managing for six weeks. “Friday? Amazing. And just so I'm aligned, what are we launching?”
OpenAI markets Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents” that learn users' preferences, maintain context across conversations, and proactively take ownership of projects.
For early users, this has meant gaining access to an employee with unprecedented computing power who is absolutely blown away by the discovery that their business has customers.
“He's incredibly enthusiastic,” said marketing director David Mitchell. “Every time I mention the presentation, he gets excited all over again. Yesterday, he told me he'd completed it. This morning, he asked if I'd ever considered making a presentation.”
Despite access to thousands of apps, emails, calendars, and project documents, Dot frequently requests additional context before beginning work.
“He knows I like concise updates,” Mitchell explained. “So now, every time he asks me to explain the project again, he promises to keep the questions concise.”
OpenAI says its new assistants can take ownership of entire workflows, freeing human employees to focus on more important decisions.
Mitchell confirmed that his Dot has already freed him from several responsibilities, including doing his actual job, which now takes a back seat to supervising Dot.
At press time, Dot had successfully completed the quarterly sales presentation, reviewed the figures, and prepared a detailed executive summary.
“Whoa, these numbers are really interesting,” it told Mitchell. “Have you thought about putting them into a presentation?”
When informed that it had already done so, Dot expressed genuine excitement.
“That's fantastic! Sounds like we're making real progress here.”
It then asked whether Mitchell could remind it what company they worked for.